Last month, several celebrities came under fire for using private jets to take short flights even while publicly declaring their support for combating climate change. The above image shows Musk getting off his private jet after landing in Los Angeles in February. It is unclear if Musk was on the Bay Area flight.
The tech mogul is also locked in a legal fight with Twitter after the social media company sued him for trying to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy out its shareholders and take the firm private. Musk started the firm after he grew tired of the traffic in Los Angeles. In addition to his duties as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is also the founder and chief executive of The Boring Company, a tunnel-digging firm which creates “loop” projects for underground car travel. Planes often sit at a less busy airport and then fly to another one close by.- Andrew Ross Sorkin August 21, 2022Īfter considering the offer, Musk said he didn’t “feel right” to pay to shut down the account. The plane was likely just being “repositioned” - as in the plane was sitting at one airport and then was moved to a different airport to pick up its passengers. He then demanded $50,000 from the Tesla chief. “I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase,” Musk wrote to Sweeney in a private message. Musk, who said that the site was a security risk, was so alarmed by Sweeney’s Twitter account that he contacted the student last year and offered him $5,000 to take it down. Last year, Jack Sweeney, a tech-savvy 19-year-old college student, founded the Twitter account which gives regular updates on flights taken by the world’s richest human on his private plane. Hilarious you see it as your job to defend the absurd excesses of billionaires.” One commenter wrote: “Lol dude that’s still an insanely short and wasteful flight, carrying passengers or not. Planes often sit at a less busy airport and then fly to another one close by.”
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“The plane was likely just being ‘repositioned’ - as in the plane was sitting at one airport and then was moved to a different airport to pick up its passengers,” Sorkin tweeted.īob Iger says Disney didn’t buy Twitter because of bots, ‘hate speech’Īnother Elon Musk company dragged into $258B dogecoin lawsuitĮlon Musk can amend Twitter suit to include whistleblower’s claims but can’t delay trial: judgeĮlon Musk’s lawyer cites whistleblower in bid to delay Twitter trial New York Times editor and CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin offered an alternative explanation. “Even if your faith in humanity is faltering, this is worth caring about,” Musk tweeted in 2018. Ken Klippenstein posted a tweet juxtaposing the map of the short flight path with a message from Musk in which he wrote: “Tesla exists to help reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change, which affects all species on Earth.” A Twitter account dedicated to tracking Musk’s flights posted the flight map online. By car, it would be a 40-minute drive depending on traffic. “Elon Musk took a 9 minute flight to San Francisco from San Jose, which is 5 stops on Caltrain,” tweeted Hayden Clarkin, referring to a local commuter rail that connects San Francisco with cities to its south along the Bay.Īccording to the map, Musk’s plane flew some 35 miles from San Jose International Airport to San Francisco International Airport.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was criticized online after his private jet flew just nine minutes to San Francisco from San Jose earlier this year. The super-short flight across San Francisco Bay took place on May 6, but Twitter users widely shared the satellite map showing the plane’s flight path over the weekend, with many expressing outrage over the carbon footprint left behind by the head of an electric car company. Elon Musk’s private jet flew from San Jose to San Francisco - a 35-mile flight that lasted a total of nine minutes, according to Twitter users who track the tech mogul’s movements.
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